Arthur suffered to look at them. His men no doubt suffered too, as they were held down by the ground itself, by quagmires that the sand had transformed into. By the vines of those forests that had sprung so suddenly up out of the ground, making lush and impassable that which once had been mere barren sand. Others had their fates to drowning, falling into rivers short enough that Arthur could see where they began, and where they ended, yet deep enough and fast enough that they could drown any man, armoured or not.